How Valuable Are Smartphone Battery Life Figures?
I do a lot of hands-on research on smartphones. I do this for two reasons. First, I believe they are fast becoming one of the prevalent cloud clients, and second, they are fast becoming a popular device to consume video. AMD obviously is involved in building the cloud with the AMD Opteron Processors but also conversion to make a video smartphone-friendly can take a tremendous amount of compute power, and ATI Radeon HD 4800 series graphics and AMD Phenom II X4 processors do those conversions quite well.
Speck announced new colors for its SeeThru hard shell cases for the new unibody MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro. The new colors are hazard orange (limited edition), purple, aqua and green, which means you can choose from a total of seven colors to make your MacBook stand out.
I had the opportunity to hang out with Vivienne Tam and a group of female bloggers in New York during fashion week. On Wednesday night we went to Vivienne Tam's fall season preview at her boutique in SoHo. The Peony flower was her inspiration for her entire spring line, which extended all the way from her dresses to the Mini 1000 special edition that I'm blogging from this week.
Gateway announced a new line of 14-inch notebooks that borrow design cues and features from the company's MC series and MD series notebooks. They have a splash of style compared to Gateway's older 14-inch models and will start at $649.99. 
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to George Ou, who will be blogging here at Notebooks.com from time to time. He is the founder of 
It's hard to believe that just over one year ago, netbooks were a brand new class of laptops meant for the developing world. Its creators grossly undermined the public's appetite for cheap and portable computers and one year later, netbooks became the fastest growing segment in the market while every other market suffered painful losses in the brutal economy.
I've been using the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition for the past month and generally have had a great experience. There have been some instances where I've needed to use the webcam and found it to be less than satisfactory. 
I'm a big fan of the HP Mini 1000 and it earned our first 
If you're tired of all the hassles of emailing drafts back and forth you should out DocVerse's new solution. DocVerse makes Microsoft Office act more like a web application, enabling instant sharing and collaboration. The company's given us 
Thanks to everyone who participated in our Seagate giveaway. We received some great entries, including a sweet poem or two. Rachna won here at Notebooks.com, Sally won over at 
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so here is a little shopping tip for that special someone in your life. The Dell Studio XPS 13 is a sexy little black and silver 13-inch notebook with leather accents. Yes, I just used sexy and leather to describe a computer. The beauty is in the details: an edge-to-edge display, anodized aluminum, backlit everything, a whisper quiet keyboard and a premium fit and finish. 
Amazon is selling the
